The first tubular tires were developed for road racing in the early 1900’s as a replacement for the conventional solid rubber tire. Until the development of the high performance clincher tire in the ...

There are many articles on gluing tubulars onto a fresh, clean rim. However, there are significantly fewer that address what is a much more common issue for amateurs: removing an old or flatted ...

If someone came up with the tubular tire and rim design today, the technology would be laughed out of the bike industry. It's a failure-prone design and, unless you've developed X-ray vision, there's ...

The concept of the tubular system — gluing a tire to a rim — is more than 100 years old and dates back to a time when racing rims were made of wood. Things have progressed since then, with Mavic ...